SummaryOne day Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan), who has 263,000 followers, realizes she has no real friends and hires marketing man Henry Higenbottam (John Cho) to help her learn how to interact with people face-to-face.
SummaryOne day Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan), who has 263,000 followers, realizes she has no real friends and hires marketing man Henry Higenbottam (John Cho) to help her learn how to interact with people face-to-face.
Both the title and the first few minutes ... nearly ruin what could turn out to be a charming show. ... Fortunately, the tone starts to shift, soften, and gain stronger comic footing. ... Additionally, almost all of the snarky skewering of the corporate environment of Henry and Eliza’s Big Pharma workplace radiates the same wonderfully acidic tone as Better Off Ted.
Americano não sabe assistir séries mesmo viu, eu não tinha expectativas alguma com essa série, mas a séries trás um conteúdo bom e engraçado, acabei assistindo tudo ontem e não me arrependo, ótima série! Eliza e Henry otp
A hilarious show that depicts modern day life with technology and how social programs can change us compared to real life. This show has fun humor, lovable characters, heart warming or string tugging moments, great acting, and hilarious jokes. A show that's worthy of lasting for more than 1 or 2 seasons, vote help this keep going.
By the end of its premiere, Selfie became a watchable show with actual potential. I'm just not sure most people will be able to hang in there that long to see it unfold.
Selfie needs to be either a little more grounded or a little more campy depending on what it wants to highlight, but this in-between kinda-real-kinda-bubblegum world makes everyone seem slightly out of place.
There's the usual assortment of quirky neighbors/co-workers, none of whom register as more than caricatures in the pilot, and the social media buzzwords sprinkled with abandon throughout the pilot comes off as hashtag desperate.... Selfie is actively grating.
I had no interest in "Selfie", but when I saw that the lovely Karen Gillan and John Cho were in it I decided to give this show a chance. The two leads deliver and have great chemistry (also David Harewood is probably the funniest part of the series). It's a fun and charming little comedy series, but it doesn't really stand-out from the infinite sea of sitcoms we get nowadays.
This is an original concept, which is very relevant to the heavy social media use of today. It also brings a message which needs to be heard of 'online friends are different to real friends'. Although the idea is new, the format is one which has been seen many times in comedy. With such an interesting and new idea, it would have been nice to see a show with a fresh format.
As an alternative 'Selfie' would have worked well as a romantic comedy feature film; a genre where the same format can be used many times, without becoming tired.
'Selfie' has generally not been well received, but its target audience appears to be very specific. It has been very relevant to teens, as it is the only show with such a strong story line based around the topic of current social media. I think this show would have been more successful if it had been released as an online series, rather than a television series, as the skew of the targeted audience are much more likely to watch content at their computers, at a viewing time they select, rather than the tradition method of watching television at a specific time.
Slightly cute, but more annoying as the show progresses. The chemistry between Gillam and Cho is adorable, but that and Karen's hot looks are about the only significant portions of the show worth watching. The one-off jokes and episode themes fail more often than not. I agree with the other reviews that the first two episodes were better than I hoped, but the last one (ep. 4) was ridiculously terrible with the 6th grade level 'inspirational message' about Charmonique's life. It's started out as a 7/10, but it's clearly downhill now.
Could not get all the way through the first episode but read some positive reviews and thought I would try it again. Could not get through that episode either. I like Cho but I find Gillan's character too annoying to be entertaining. The jokes are flat, the situations are even flatter. Sorry. No more of this show for me. I think it is appalling how bad this season's sitcoms have been so far. Marry Me is the only one that I am likely to continue watching although Blackish isn't terrible but I certainly would not miss it if it was cancelled.